Katherine Jones RA – Fine Ladies and Gentle Men Nos. 1,2,3 & 4

A hand printed collagraph series of large prints by Katherine Jones RA made for ‘Fine Ladies and Gentle Men’, Katherine Jones museum exhibition at Gainsborough’s  House in 2025. The title ‘Fine Ladies and Gentle Men’ alludes to flowers and the human conditions or characteristics associated with them (the face of a pansy or the throat of a lily, for example). It is also a nod towards the sitters in Gainsborough’s many society portraits, showing off – as plants do – with finery and accoutrements of status. The exhibition will showcased this combination of prints with a particular focus on plant and flower forms and the embellishments.
employed to attract their pollinators.

Jones is painter and a printmaker. Her ideas are often exchanged between watercolour, etchings and collagraph prints. She builds layers, overlays marks and colour to create rich nuanced surfaces. Her distinctive images are inhabited by ordinary objects and structures, often fragile or vulnerable, reflecting issues that are under the surface of her everyday life as an artist, mother and an individual in a challenged world environment.

Collections include: (UK) The Victoria and Albert Museum; National Art Library; University College, London; Hospitals Art Collection; Government Art Collection; Royal Festival Hall; Winchester College; Eton College; Ashmolean Museum; University of Chichester Art Collection; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; University of Warwick Art Collection; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; (USA) Lafayette College, Boston Athenaeum; Wellesley Library; Swarthmore College, PA; Yale University Library, CT; United Therapeutics Art Collection; (CN) Guangdong Museum.

In 2022 Katherine Jones was elected as a Royal Academician.